ZIP 98125 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 98125 (King County, Washington) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). On the structural side it scores 79/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (79/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (55/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year, and 7% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

At $96,725, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Around 46% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 6.3%. 46% of housing is owner-occupied. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 45/100. About 43,807 people live here, median age 38. The poverty rate is 9.6%. The typical home is worth about $874,300 (8.7× income, severely stretched). Around 61% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The ZIP holds roughly 22,057 housing units.

Net-net, 98125 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.